Re: [RFC/PATCH] Nonotify - A simplistic way to determine directory content changes



Hi,

Am Thu, den 03.06.2004 um 14:24 Uhr +0200 schrieb nf:
> On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:06, Alexander Larsson wrote: 
> > On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 20:13, nf wrote:
> > > I have posted this to the kernel list. Might be interesting for the nautilus 
> > > developers as well. Perhaps this could be used by "fam" instead of dnotify. 
> > > Cause i don't see any problems with delivering events from a "polling" mechanism.
> > > But i don't know if we really need fam in this case, or rather use it from 
> > > gnome-vfs directly.
> > 
> > Not that this might not be a good idea, but your measurements are a bit
> > skewed. I'm pretty sure that events could be done in a way that uses
> > less resources (and doesn't block unmount), and what you're measuring is
> > the worst-case for a notify approach.
> 
> When you write a file the regular way (not with "echo's", which
> open/closes the file for every line), fam/dnotify "only" slows
> file-writing down by about factor 2. Test-utility attached.
> 
> Alexander, another question: Do you think i should continue developing
> nonotify? I have the feeling that anything less sophisticated than
> dnotify&events won't get accepted anyway. 
> 
> The problem is how to bring the dcontents_mtime timestamp to userspace.
[...]

btw, does the mtime timestamp suffice ? What if the file changes, but
the last time the file was changed was less that half a second ago ?
Maybe I'm missing something though...

cheers,
   Danny

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